Amerikan Kitap Ödülleri

Amerikan Kitap Ödülü birçok kitaba ve kişiye "olağanüstü edebi başarı"dan dolayı yıllık olarak verilen Amerikan edebiyat ödülüdür. Ödülün 2010 dağıtım bildirisine göre, "kategorisiz, adaysız, bu yüzden de kaybedeni olmayan" ve "yazarların diğer yazarlara verdiği" bir ödüldür.

Ödül, 1978'de kurulan ve 1980'de açılışını yapan birçok kültüre odaklı, kâr amacı gütmeyen Before Columbus Foundation tarafından yönetilmektedir.

Ödül aynı zamanda ırk, cinsiyet, etnik köken veya tür sınırlaması yapmadan Amerikan edebiyatına yapılan mükemmel katkıları onurlandırır. Toni Morrison, Edward Said, Isabel Allende, bell hooks, Don DeLillo, Derrick Bell, Robin D. G. Kelley, Joy Harjo ve Tommy J. Curry örneklerindeki yazar, kamu bilimcisi, şair ve tarihçi gibi çeşitliliğe sahip eski kazananları bulunmaktadır.

Ulusal Kitap Ödülleri
1980'de alakasız olarak Ulusal Kitap Ödülleri Amerikan Kitap ödülleri olarak adlandırıldı. Daha sonra 1987'de tekrar eski adına dönüp Ulusal Kitap Ödülleri oldu. Bu yedi yıl içinde iki ödülün birbiriyle hiçbir bağı olmadı.

Kazananlar
1980 - 1989
1980
Douglas Woolf, Future preconditional: A collection
Edward Dorn, Hello, La Jolla
Jayne Cortez, Mouth on Paper
Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Random Possession
Milton Murayama, All I Asking for Is My Body
Quincy Troupe, Snake Back Solos
Rudolfo Anaya, Tortuga, roman

1981
Alta, Shameless Hussy
Alan Chong Lau, Songs for Jadina
Bienvenido N. Santos, Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories
Helen Adam, Turn Again to Me & Other Poems
Lionel Mitchell, Traveling Light
Miguel Algarín, On Call
Nicholasa Mohr, Felita
Peter Blue Cloud, Back Then Tomorrow
Robert Kelly, The Time of Voice: Poems 1994–1996
Rose Drachler, The Choice
Susan Howe, The Liberties
Toni Cade Bambara, The Salt Eaters

1982
Al Young, Bodies and Soul
Duane Niatum, Songs for the Harvester of Dreams: Poems
E. L. Mayo, Collected Poems E L Mayo
Frank Chin, The Chickencoop Chinaman ve The Year of the Dragon
Hilton Obenzinger, This Passover or the next, I will never be in Jerusalem
Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, Judy Yung, Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910–1940
Jerome Rothenberg, Pre-Faces and Other Writings
Joyce Carol Thomas, Marked by Fire
Leroy Quintana, Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets
Lorna Dee Cervantes, Emplumada
Ronald Phillip Tanaka, The Shino Suite: Japanese-American Poetry
Russell Banks, Book of Jamaica
Tato Laviera, Enclave

1983
Barbara Christian, Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition, 1892–1976
Cecilia Liang, Chinese Folk Poetry
Evangelina Vigil-Piñón, Thirty: An' Seen a Lot
Harriet Rohmer, Legend of Food Mountain: LA Montana Del Alimento
James D. Houston, Californians: Searching for the Golden State
Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn, Pet food & tropical apparitions
John A. Williams, Click Song, roman
Joy Kogawa, Obasan
Judy Grahn, The Queen of Wands: Poetry
Nash Candelaria, Not by the Sword
Peter Guralnick, Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
Seán Ó Tuama, An Duanaire Sixteen Hundred to Nineteen Hundred: Poems of the Dispossessed

1984
Cecil Brown, Days Without Weather
Gary Snyder, Axe Handles: Poems
Howard Schwartz, Mark Podwal, The Captive Soul of the Messiah: New Tales About Reb Nachman
Imamu Amiri Baraka, Anthology of African American Women: Confirmation Men
Jesús Colón, A Puerto Rican in New York, and Other Sketches
Joseph Bruchac, Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian-American Poets
Maurice Kenny, The Mama Poems
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, The heat bird
Miné Okubo, Citizen 13660
Paule Marshall, Praisesong for the Widow
Ruthanne Lum McCunn, You-shan Tang, Ellen Lai-shan Yeung, Pie-Biter
Thomas McGrath, Echoes inside the labyrinth
Venkatesh Kulkarni, Naked in Deccan
William J. Kennedy, O Albany!

1985
Angela Jackson, Solo in the Box Car Third Floor E
Arnold Genthe, John Kuo Wei Tchen, Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown
Colleen J. McElroy, Queen of the Ebony Isles
Gary Soto, Living Up The Street
Peter Irons, Justice at War
Keiho Soga, Taisanboku Mori, Sojin Takei, Muin Ozaki, Poets Behind Barbed Wire
Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine, roman
Maureen Owen, Amelia Earhart
May Sarton, At Seventy: A Journal
Robert Edward Duncan, Ground Work: Before the War
Ron Jones, Say Ray
Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
Sonia Sanchez, Homegirls and Handgrenades
Julia Vinograd for The Book of Jerusalem
William Oandasan, Round Valley Songs

1986
Anna Lee Walters, The Sun Is Not Merciful: Short Stories
Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Helen Barolini, The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writing by Italian American Women
Jeff Hannusch, I Hear You Knockin : The Sound of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues
Linda Hogan, Seeing Through the Sun
Miguel Algarín, Time's Now/Ya Es Tiempo
Natasha Borovsky, A Daughter of the Nobility
Raymond Federman, Smiles on Washington Square: A Love Story of Sorts
Susan Howe, My Emily Dickinson
Terence Winch, Irish Musicians/American Friends
Toshio Mori, Yokohama, California

1987
Ai, SIN
Ana Castillo, The Mixquiahuala Letters
Cyn Zarco, Circumnavigations
Daniel McGuire, Portrait of Little Boy in darkness
Dorothy Bryant, Confessions of Madame Psyche: Memoirs and Letters of Mei-Li Murrow
Etheridge Knight, The Essential Etheridge Knight
Gary Giddins, Celebrating Bird: The Triumph Of Charlie Parker
Harvey Pekar, The New American Splendor Anthology: From Off the Streets of Cleveland
James Welch, Fools Crow
John Wieners, Selected Poems: 1958–1984
Juan Felipe Herrera, Face Games
Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, liberazione della donna: feminism in Italy
Michael Mayo, Practicing Angels: A Contemporary Anthology of San Francisco Bay Area Poetry
Septima Poinsette Clark, Cynthia Stokes Brown, Ready from Within: A First Person Narrative
Terry McMillan, Mama

1988
Allison Blakely, Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought
Charles Olson, The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems
Daisy Bates, The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir
David Halberstam, The Reckoning
Edward Sanders, Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century: Poems 1961–1985
Gerald Vizenor,
Jimmy Santiago Baca, Martin & Meditations on the South Valley
Kesho Y. Scott, Cherry Muhanji, Egyirba High, Tight Spaces
Marlon K. Hom, Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown
Benjamin Hoff, The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley

2000 - 2009
2000
Esther G. Belin, From the Belly of My Beauty
Allan J. Ryan, The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art
Andrés Montoya, The Ice Worker Sings and Other Poems
Camille Peri, Kate Moses, Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood
David A. J. Richards, Italian American: The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity
David Toop, Exotica
Elva Trevino Hart, Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child
Emil Guillermo, Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective; With an Introduction by Ishmael Reed
Frank Chin, The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co.
Helen Thomas, Front Row at the White House : My Life and Times
Janisse Ray, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
John Russell Rickford, Russell John Rickford, Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
Leroy TeCube, Year in Nam: A Native American Soldier's Story
Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Heads By Harry
Michael Lally, It's Not Nostalgia: Poetry & Prose
Michael Patrick MacDonald, All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Why She Left Us, roman
Robert Creeley, The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005
Editor/Publisher: Ronald Sukenick
Keith Gilyard, John Oliver Killens
Akbar Ahmed, Journey Into America: The Challenge of Islam
Camille Dungy, Suck on the Marrow
Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel
William W. Cook ve James Tatum, African American Writers and Classical Tradition
Gerald Vizenor, Shrouds of White Earth
Eric Gansworth, Extra Indians
Ivan Argüelles, The Death of Stalin
Geoffrey Alan Argent, ed., The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Volume 1: The Fratricides, çeviri
Neela Vaswani, You Have Given Me a Country
Sasha Pimentel Chacón, Insides She Swallowed
Miriam Jiménez Román ve Juan Flores, eds., The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History of Culture in the United States
Carmen Giménez Smith, Bring Down the Little Birds
Luis Valdez, Ömür Boyu Başarı
John A. Williams, Ömür Boyu Başarı

2012
Will Alexander, Singing In Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose, Texts, Interviews, and a Lecture, Essay Press
Jacob M. Appel, The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up, Cargo
Philip P. Choy, San Francisco Chinatown: A Guide To Its History & Architecture, City Lights
Amanda Coplin, The Orchardist, Harper Collins
Natalie Diaz, When My Brother Was An Aztec, Copper Canyon Press
Louise Erdrich, The Round House, Harper Collins
Alan Gilbert, Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence, Chicago Üniversitesi
Judy Grahn, A Simple Revolution: The Making of an Activist Poet, Aunt Lute Books
Joy Harjo, Crazy Brave: A Memoir, W.W. Norton & Co.
Demetria Martinez, The Block Captain's Daughter, University of Oklahoma Press
Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, Blood Songs, The Ecstatic Exchange
D. G. Nanouk Okpik, Corpse Whale, University of Arizona Press
Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI's War On Student Radical and Reagan's Rise to Power, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Christopher B. Teuton, Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liar's Club, University of North Carolina
Lew Welch, Ring of Bone: Collected Poems, City Lights
Ivan Argüelles, Ömür Boyu Başarı
Greil Marcus, Ömür Boyu Başarı
Floyd Salas, Ömür Boyu Başarı

2014
Andrew Bacevich, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country, Metropolitan Books
Joshua Bloom ve Waldo E. Martin, Jr. , Black Against Empire; The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party, University of California Press
Juan Delgado (şiir) ve Thomas McGovern (fotoğraf), Vital Signs, Heyday Books
Alex Espinoza, The Five Acts of Diego León, Random House
Jonathan Scott Holloway, Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940, University of North Carolina Press
Joan Naviyuk Kane, Hyperboreal, University of Pittsburgh Press
Jamaica Kincaid, See Now Then, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Tanya Olson , Boyishly, YesYes Books
Sterling D. Plumpp, Home/Bass, Third World Press
Emily Raboteau, Searching For Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora, Atlantic Monthly Press
Jerome Rothenberg with Heriberto Yepez , Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader, Commonwealth Books
Nick Turse, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, Metropolitan Books
Margaret Wrinkle , Wash, Atlantic Monthly Press
Koon Woon , Water Chasing Water, Kaya Press
Armond White, Sansür Karşıtlığı Ödülü
Michael Parenti, Ömür Boyu Başarı

2015
Hisham Aidi, Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture (Vintage)
Arlene Biala, her beckoning hands (Word Poetry)
Arthur Dong, Forbidden City, USA: Chinese American Nightclubs, 1936-1970 (DeepFocus Productions)
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (Beacon Press)
Peter J. Harris, The Black Man of Happiness (Black Man of Happiness Project)
Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings (Riverhead Books)
Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Simon & Schuster)
Laila Lalami, The Moor's Account (Pantheon)
Manuel Luis Martinez, Los Duros (Floricanto Press)
Craig Santos Perez, from unincorporated territory [guma’] (Omnidawn)
Carlos Santana, Ashley Kahn ve Hal Miller, The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light (Little, Brown and Company)
Ira Sukrungruang, Southside Buddhist (University of Tampa Press)
Astra Taylor, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age (Henry Holt)
Anne Waldman, Ömür Boyu Başarı
2016

Laura Da', Tributaries (University of Arizona)
Susan Muaddi Darraj, Curious Land: Stories from Home (University of Massachusetts)
Deepa Iyer, We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multicultural Future (The New Press)
Mat Johnson, Loving Day (Spiegel & Grau)
John Keene, Counternarratives (New Directions)
William J. Maxwell, F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature (Princeton University)
Lauret Savoy, Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape (Counterpoint)
Ned Sublette ve Constance Sublette, The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry (Lawrence Hill Books)
Jesús Salvador Treviño, Return to Arroyo Grande (Arte Público)
Nick Turse, Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa (Haymarket Books)
Ray Young Bear, Manifestation Wolverine: The Collected Poetry of Ray Young Bear (Open Road Integrated Media)
Louise Meriwether, Ömür Boyu Başarı
Lyra Monteiro ve Nancy Isenberg, Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award
Chiitaanibah Johnson, Andrew Hope Ödülü
2017

Rabia Chaudry Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial (St. Martin's Press)
Flores A. Forbes Invisible Men: A Contemporary Slave Narrative in the Era of Mass Incarceration (Skyhorse Publishing)
Yaa Gyasi Homegoing (Knopf)
Holly Hughes Passings (Expedition Press)
Randa Jarrar Him, Me, Muhammad Ali (Sarabande Books)
Bernice L. McFadden The Book of Harlan (Akashic Books)
Brian D. McInnes Sounding Thunder: The Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow (Michigan State University Press)
Patrick Phillips Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America (W. W. Norton & Company)
Vaughn Rasberry Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination (Harvard University Press)
Marc Anthony Richardson Year of the Rat (Fiction Collective Two)
Shawna Yang Ryan Green Island (Knopf)
Ruth Sergel See You in the Streets: Art, Action, and Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (University of Iowa Press)
Solmaz Sharif Look (Graywolf Press)
Adam Soldofsky Memory Foam (Disorder Press)
Alfredo Véa The Mexican Flyboy (University of Oklahoma Press)
Dean Wong Seeing the Light: Four Decades in Chinatown (Chin Music Press)
Nancy Mercado Ömür Boyu Başarı
Ammiel Alcalay Editör/Yayıncı Ödülü: Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative
2018

Thi Bui The Best That We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir (Harry N. Abrams)
Rachelle Cruz God's Will for Monsters (Inlandia Books)
Tommy Curry The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood (Temple University Press)
Tongo Eisen-Martin Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights)
Dana Naone Hall Life of the Land: Articulations of a Native Writer (University of Hawaii)
Kelly Lytle Hernández City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 (University of North Carolina)
Victor Lavalle The Changeling: A Novel (Spiegel & Grau)
Bojan Louis Currents (BkMk Press)
Valeria Luiselli Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions (Coffee House Press)
Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson ve B. V. Olguín Altermundos Latin@ Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture (UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press)
Tiya Miles The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits (The New Press)
Tommy Pico Nature Poem (Tin House Books)
Rena Priest Patriarchy Blues (MoonPath Press)
Joseph Rios Shadowboxing: poems & impersonations (Omnidawn)
Sunaura Taylor Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation (The New Press)
Sequoyah Guess Ömür Boyu Başarı
Kellie Jones South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s (Duke University Press): Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Eleştirmen Ödülü
Charles F. Harris Editör/Yayıncı Ödülü
Rob Rogers Sansür Karşıtlığı Ödülü
Heroes Are Gang Leaders Konuşma Edebiyatı Ödülü
2019

Frank Abe, Greg Robinson ve Floyd Cheung John Okada: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy (University of Washington Press)
May-lee Chai Useful Phrases for Immigrants: Stories (Blair)
Louise DeSalvo The House of Early Sorrows: A Memoir in Essays (Fordham University Press)
Heid E. Erdrich New Poets of Native Nations (Graywolf Press)
Ángel García Teeth Never Sleep: Poems (University of Arkansas Press)
Tommy Orange There There (Knopf)
Halifu Osumare Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir (University Press of Florida)
Christopher Patton Unlikeness Is Us: Fourteen from the Exeter Book (Gaspereau Press)
Mark Sarvas Memento Park: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Jeffrey C. Stewart The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke (Oxford University Press)
William T. Vollmann Carbon Ideologies: Volume I, No Immediate Danger, Volume II, No Good Alternative (Viking Press|Viking)
G. Willow Wilson ve Nico Leon Ms. Marvel Vol. 9: Teenage Wasteland (Marvel Comics)
Nathan Hare Ömür Boyu Başarı
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Editör/Yayıncı Ödülü
Moor Mother Konuşma Edebiyatı Ödülü

2020 - günümüz
2020

Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems (W.W. Norton)
Sara Borjas, Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff (Noemi Press)
Neeli Cherkovski, Raymond Foye, Tate Swindell, editörler, Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman (City Lights)
Staceyann Chin, Crossfire: A Litany for Survival (Haymarket)
Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina: Stories (One World)
Tara Fickle, The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities (New York University Press)
Erika Lee, America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States (Basic Books)
Yoko Ogawa, The Memory Police (Pantheon)
Jake Skeets, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers (Milkweed Editions)
George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker, They Called Us Enemy (Top Shelf Productions)
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin)
De'Shawn Charles Winslow, In West Mills (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Albert Woodfox with Leslie George, Solitary: My Story of Transformation and Hope (Grove Press)
Ömür Boyu Başarı: Eleanor W. Traylor
Editör Ödülü: The Panopticon Review, Kofi Natambu, editör
Yayıncı Ödülü: Commune Editions, Jasper Bernes, Joshua Clover ve Juliana Spahr, editörler
Konuşma Edebiyatı Ödülü: Amalia Leticia Ortiz
Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Eleştirmen Ödülü: Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy, Anthony Harkins ve Meredith McCarroll

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